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Definitions: Fence In |
Fence InVerb1. Enclose with a fence; "we fenced in our yard". 2. Surround with a wall in order to fortify. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Fence InSynonyms: fence (v), palisade (v), surround (v), wall (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Circumscription | Verb: circumscribe, limit, bound, confine, inclose; surround; compass about; imprison; (restrain); hedge in, wall in, rail in; fence round, fence in,hedge round; picket; corral. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Fence In |
| English words defined with "fence in": backstop ♦ Fagin, fence, Fence roof ♦ gate ♦ on the fence ♦ post hole, posthole ♦ The Adversary, To take in ♦ undecided. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "fence in": Back and Edge ♦ FARMWORKER, FIELD CROP I, Fence, FENCE-ERECTOR SUPERVISOR ♦ GLIRICIDIA SEPIUM, GNAPHALIUM ELEGANS, GNAPHALIUM SPICATUM, GNETUM LEYBOLDII ♦ out-of-band ♦ Pito de peronilla, PLANT, prop wall ♦ SHOP SUPERVISOR, SUPERVISOR, FENCE MANUFACTURE ♦ TIRE SETTER, TRICHANTHERA ♦ Wire. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "fence in": septum. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
Cattle being herded by cowboys on horseback. Fence in the foreground.Credit: Unknown. | ![]() | Barn and other buildings behind fence in Georgia.Credit: Library of Congress. | |
![]() | African American man standing at tall picket fence in front of house.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | A colonial fence in Alexandria.Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Cactus fence in Salamanca, Mexico.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Rail fence in San Juan County, Colorado.Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Fruit jars being sterilized on old lady Graham's back fence in berry season. Near Conway, Arkansas. "We just gather and can peas, beans, berries, and sausage when we butcher the hogs in the winter. We put up seventy-five quarts of berries, sixty of beans,.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | 1917-1918, reference prints from negatives. Stream flowing through field with fence in foreground.Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Reference prints, 1919-1920, numbers 2133-2377. Buggy on road; Field with two trees and rock fence in foreground.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Man on horse jumping fence in fox hunt in Virginia.Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Fence in gardens to keep out wild animals. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
fence in picket vermont | 2 |
fence in jersey new picket wood | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "fence in"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | rrethoj (begird, beleaguer, beset, besiege, border on, circle, circumscribe, circumvent, close in, close on, compass, embosom, embower, encircle, enclose, encompass, engird, engirdle, entwine, envelop, environ, flank, fold, gird, girdle, hedge in, hem, inclose, invest, lap, leaguer, pocket, rail, rim, ring, round up, span, surround, wreathe), gardhoj (block, encompass, fence, hedge, hinder, pale, picket, piquet, rail). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | ограждам (circumscribe, enclose, fence, fringe, hedge, hem, rail, roll up), заграждам (contain, edge, encircle, enclose, encompass, environ, fence, flank, inclose, lock in, rail, shut in, stem, stop, throw around, throw round). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | oplotit (enclose, fence), ohradit (enclose, fence, fence off, Park, rail in, wall). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | afrasteren (fence off, rail in, rail off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | kradi (fence off, rail in, rail off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ympäröidä jokin aidalla. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | ôffreedzje (fence off, rail in, rail off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | vergattern (fence off, instruct, punish), umfrieden (close in, enclose, wall in), einzäunen (corral, enclose, fence, rail in, to corral). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | bekerít (encompass, hunt down, mure, surround, to circumvent, to close in, to encircle, to enclose, to encompass, to fence, to fence in, to gird, to hedge in, to hem in, to hunt down, to lay down, to rail). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Icelandic | girða af (fence off, rail in, rail off), afgirða (fence off, rail in, rail off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 塀'巡らす (to fence in, to surround with a wall). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | へい'めぐらす (to fence in, to surround with a wall). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | encefay inay огородить, загородить (enclose, inclose). (various references) zagraditi (enclose), ograditi (enclose, hedge, partition off, surround). (various references) sätta upp stängsel kring (fence off), omgärda (enclose, fence off, inclose), kringgärda (circumscribe), inhägna (enclose, fence off, hedge, inclose). (various references) กั้น"้วยรั้ว, จำกั" (bound, chain down, chain to, circumscribe, clamp down on, limit, limiting, localize, tie). (various references) kilitlemek (close, fasten, fasten up, interlock, key, key in, key on, lock, lock up, make fast, shut up, turn the key), kapamak (block, block up, bung up, close, confine, coop, coop in, coop up, cover, cover in, encase, hang up, obstruct, obturate, occlude, seal, shut, shut down, shut in, shut out, shut to, shut up, shutter, stop, stop up, top, turn off, turn out, wind up, wipe out), çit ile çevirmek (enclose, fence, hedge, hedge in, hedge round, pale in, palisade). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-f-i-n-n" | |
-1 letter: fennec. | |
-2 letters: fence, niece. | |
-3 letters: cine, fice, fine, neif, nene, nice, nine. | |
-4 letters: cee, fee, fen, fie, fin, ice, inn, nee. | |
-5 letters: ef, en, if, in, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-f-i-n-n" | |
+2 letters: inference, influence, refencing, refinance. | |
+3 letters: beneficent, beneficing, confidence, fescennine, greenfinch, inferences, influenced, influences, prefinance, refinanced, refinances, uninfected. | |
+4 letters: benefaction, beneficence, confidences, confinement, enfranchise, fancinesses, freelancing, inefficient, infrequence, infrequency, munificence, noninfected, prefinanced, prefinances, reenforcing, referencing, reinfecting, reinfection, uninflected. | |
+5 letters: benefactions, beneficences, beneficently, confectioner, conferencing, conferential, confinements, differencing, enfranchised, enfranchises, frankincense, genuflecting, genuflection, greenfinches, indifference, indifferency, inefficiency, inefficients, infrequences, interference, magnificence, munificences, noncertified, noneffective, nonfluencies, noninfective, noninfluence, reinfections, uninfluenced, unreinforced. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 65 6E 63 65      49 6E |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100101 01101110 01100011 01100101 00100000 01001001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F e n c e   I n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0065 006E 0063 0065      0049 006E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)407180697124380 |
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